Story of a Death Foretold

On 11 September 1973, President Salvador Allende of Chile, Latin America''s first democratically elected Marxist president, was deposed in a violent coup d''état. Early that morning the phone lines to Allende''s office were cut, army officers loyal to the republic were arrested and shortly afterwards bombs from four British-made Hawker Hunter jets began slamming into the presidential palace. Allen...